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7 Contrarian Signs of a Healthy Relationship
Stop living in confusion about whether you’re partner is doing the right things.
Healthy relationships don’t look glamorous. They are not based on Hollywood fantasy of grand, dramatic gestures or over-the-top declarations of love.
In reality, healthy relationships thrive on the partners’ ability and commitment to do the simple things consistently.
The problem is, most people can’t even recognize the signs because it doesn’t always feel like it.
Many people mistakingly think that a relationship needs to be perfect to be healthy. They think “If I just find the perfect person, I won’t have to fight, change, or do any work.”
That’s not true.
No relationship is perfect at all. Healthy relationships are not flawless. They have their quirks.
Most times, the things that make a relationship strong are quite opposite of what we’ve been made to believe.
Here are seven of them:
Disagreeing With Each Other
When two people with different backgrounds and orientations come into a relationship, they are bound to disagree, argue, and have conflict.
